CVE-2024-52522: Rclone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Insecure handling of symlinks with --links and --metadata in rclone while copying to local disk allows unprivileged users to indirectly modify ownership and permissions on symlink target files when a superuser or privileged process performs a copy. This vulnerability could enable privilege escalation and unauthorized access to critical system files, compromising system integrity, confidentiality, and availability. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.68.2.

Affected products

• Rclone Rclone: from 1.59.0, before 1.68.2 (fixed in 1.68.2)

Published 2024-11-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.